Heel for women&#39;s shoes



A. A. FORTUNATO.

HEEL FOR WOMENS SHOES.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 2|, I920.

L41 7, 1 56 ted M y 23, 1192 2.

'ruNA'ro, a citizen ofthe United States, reside ANTONIO A. FORTUNA'IO, 01E BOSTON, MASFSAGHUSETTS.

HEEL FOR WOMEN'S SHOES.

, r rities.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lniown that I, AN'roNio A. Fore ing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of ltllassachusetts, have 1nvented a new and useful Heel for l/Vomens Shoes, oi

I -which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel metal heel for womens shoes having novel means for attaching and fitting the heel to the shoe, and having novel means for securing a leather lift to a filling contained within a chamber in the lower portion of the 1 heel. I obtain the objects of my invention a panying drawings, in whicha r by the mechanism illustrated in the acconn Figure l is a vertical section of the heel applied to a shoe;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the heel. and attaching plate detached from the shoe;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the heel on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. t is a perspective view of the bottom of the heel before the leather lift has been applied.

Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings 1 provide a metal heel 1, the main portion of which is hollow, and which is provided with a substantially tl-shaped groove in the upper portion of the heel, as shown in Fig. 2, and which groove is adapted to recelve the correspondingly shaped edge portion a of a metal attaching plate 3. Plate 3 is provided with prongs 17 which engage and mark the bottom of the shoe as shown in Fig. 2. A1-

. ter the heel has thus been properly positioned it is separated from .the attaching plate and the latter is nailed or tacked on to Specification of Letters Patent. PwB -t QLMQ 33 1922 Application filed July 21,

1920. Serial No. eeaeoa.

the shoe by suitable tacks 9 through open ings 8. The heel is then slid. into position engaging the plate 3 as shown in Figs. 3 and 1, and screws 7 are applied, these screws passing through openings 6 in plate 3 and through the corresponding openings in cars 5 of the heel 1,. In other words the screws are inserted down through the bottom of the heel from the inside of the shoe and lock plate 3 and heel 1 together.

I further provide novel means for attaching a leather liftto a metal heel of this type. For this purpose I provide a chamber 11 in. which I insert suitable pieces of leather 12. llftembers 12 are secured in place by a longitudinally extending screw 13 which is inserted from. a lower portion of the breast of the heel, as shown in 1, and which is prevented from working loose by means of a small pin 1 1 which is inserted. in a suitable aperturein the screw as indicated in Fig. 1. A leather lift 15 is attached by nails 6 which are driven. through the lift 15 and into the leather filler members 12.

What I claim is:

lncombination with a shoe, a metal plate screws inserted through the interior of the shoe at the heel and securing the heel in rigid engagement with the metal plate, substantially as shown.

ANTONIO a. ron'rnna'ro. 

